The organisation of the Australian Country Party (N.S.W), 1946 to 1962
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1964
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Aitkin, Donald Alexander
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Founded by primary producers and encouraged by separatists, the
Country Party in New South Wales won parliamentary representation in
1920 and a share in government in 1927* By 1941 it had been in power
in a series of coalition governments for 12 of the preceding 14 years
in New South Wales and for 13 of the preceding 18 years in federal
politics. The great advance of the A.L.P. in the 1940s did not destroy
the Country Party, as it did the U.A.P., but caused it to alter its
structure. From a political organisation run by and for the primary
producers' organisations it emerged in 1946 as a 'popular' political
party with a mass membership no longer directly connected to industry
organisations.
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